About Lesa's Book Critiques
| I have been a library manager/administrator for over 30 years, in Ohio, Florida, Arizona, and, now, Indiana. Library Journal Mystery Reviewer of the Year 2018. 2022 Raven Award recipient from Mystery Writers of America. Recipient of the 2018 David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award from Bouchercon Board. Winner of the 2011 Arizona Library Association Outstanding Library Service Award. I am a mystery columnist for Library Journal, Mystery Readers Journal, and ReadertoReader.com. Author of the “Mystery Fiction” chapter in Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (7th ed.) Winner of the 2009 and 2010 Spinetingler Awards for Best Reviewer. |
Recent Posts
The Devil in the Details by Vicki delany
I don't know how I missed the eleventh Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery by Vicki Delany. But, darn her anyways. She killed off my favorite suspect in The Devil in the Details. I should have known it wouldn't be that easy. Delany is much smarter than that, and her...
Mrs. Claus and the Fatal Figgy Pudding By Liz Ireland
I have to suspend disbelief to read a mystery series set in Santaland where an innkeeper from Oregon is married to Santa Claus and lives in Castle Kringle with the Claus family. I am such a sucker for Liz Ireland's Mrs. Claus series, including the seventh one in the...
The Ghost and the Dead Librarian by Cleo Coyle
I'm a big fan of hardboiled detective Jack Shepard in Cleo Coyle's Haunted Bookshop Detective series.It's been a few years since I read the second last book, The Ghost Goes to the Dogs. Coyle has switched publishers, and the first in her Haunted Bookshop Detective...